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jev-ultrafast

i. am. speed.

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Sep 2026

jev-ultrafast is Browser Use's speed demo for a new kind of model. Normal browser agents ask a chat model to write out its next step. This one hands Jev, a decision model from TypeSafe AI that returns typed choices instead of text, a numbered list of page elements and gets back which one to click. A small text model only writes the words that need typing. The README's showcase is a Zurich to London search on Google Flights in about seven seconds. MIT licensed.

It is source code, not a product: uv sync, a local Chrome with remote debugging on, and two paid keys. One is a TypeSafe key for Jev, which bills $0.042 per million input tokens with free output and is waitlisted right now. The other is an OpenRouter key for the text model. No releases, version 0.1.0, and the README calls it an MVP.

Solo builders curious about decision models: worth an evening once you clear the waitlist. Teams that need browser automation today should use the same company's main browser-use library, or Skyvern.

The catch: the benchmark is three repeats of one task on one browser profile, and the README says so. Shadow DOM, iframes, canvas, uploads, and pop-up tabs are out of scope. And the whole thing depends on a closed API you cannot self-host.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

fully free

Free: The MIT source code: a Python browser agent that uses Jev for element decisions and a small text model for typed input.

Self-hosted: Runs on your machine against a local Chrome. There is no way to self-host the model it depends on, because Jev is a closed API.

Paid: Nothing to Browser Use. Every run makes paid API calls to two outside services: TypeSafe AI's Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens (output tokens free, access currently waitlisted) and an OpenRouter-hosted text model. The repo also promotes a waitlist for Browser Use Cloud.

Free MIT code that cannot run without two paid API keys, one of them for a closed, waitlisted model.

What to do by team size

Solo
free code; pennies in API calls once you have Jev access
Small team
free code; treat it as a demo, not a dependency
Medium team
free code; use the main browser-use library for real work
Large team
free code; not production software
Self-hosting ops:moderate
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